US Health Care Costs

Cellulitis with Mcc in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 602: Cellulitis with mcc

$59,209typical hospital bill
$12,253typical amount paid
$10,149–$19,293range paid across 26 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $59,209 for this stay in 2024, about 4.8 times what was actually paid. Medicare's payment depends mostly on the hospital's location and teaching role; the bill depends on the hospital's own price list, so bills vary far more than payments.

Billed (list price)Actually paid (Medicare + patient)

HospitalCityMedicare staysBilledPaid
Upmc PassavantPittsburgh13$63,507$10,149
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre11$58,445$10,174
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown16$26,724$10,176
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville16$47,125$10,371
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterMeadowbrook11$35,800$10,559
Chester County HospitalWest Chester14$59,973$10,872
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster23$49,166$10,982
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton13$99,848$11,325
Forbes HospitalMonroeville13$36,763$11,576
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr11$72,362$11,589
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg11$30,917$11,726
Penn State Health St. JosephReading11$54,033$11,908
Upmc HanoverHanover11$46,729$12,024
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne19$32,142$12,483
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown39$68,103$12,947
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg14$64,186$12,962
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington28$46,180$13,126
Reading HospitalWest Reading15$68,472$13,159
Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College11$34,477$13,313
Wellspan York HospitalYork18$38,775$13,816
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem14$103,000$14,484
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh11$104,439$15,479
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston19$81,990$15,563
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia11$75,730$15,871
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia20$114,779$17,808
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia22$118,366$19,293

Medicare: CMS, 2024 (hospitals with 11 or more Medicare stays). Cash and insurer prices: hospitals' own price files, where read; insurer figures are commercial plans only, median and 10th–90th percentile across plans.